Table of Contents:
  • Epidemiology of heart failure: progression to pandemic?
  • Heart failure clinical trials: shaping the evidence for treatment guidelines
  • Standard medical therapy of heart failure
  • Novel therapies in heart failure
  • Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and biventricular pacemakers in congestive heart failure
  • Managing a heart failure clinic
  • Novel imaging technologies for heart failure patients
  • Assessment of myocardial viability in ischemic cardiomyopathy
  • Bypass surgery in the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy
  • Valve surgery for patients with left ventricular dysfunction
  • Ventricular reconstruction and device therapies for cardiomyopathy patients
  • Mechanical circulatory support
  • The role of heart transplantation
  • Perioperative care of the surgical patient with heart failure: from conventional cardiac surgery to mechanical circulatory support
  • Biological approaches to heart failure: gene transfer and cell transplantation
  • Ethical issues in cardiothoracic medicine.